Dead after falling weight in the bench press

des moines - An American student at the University of Iowa is deceased earlier this week in a gym in Ankeny after during weight lifting a dumbbell had dropped on top of his throat. The 22-year-old boy was taken to a hospital in Des Moines, where he died, US media reported.

The student was a regular visitor to the gym in the suburb of Des Moines. During the bench press slipped a barbell weighing 143 kilos from his hands and fell on his throat. The gym said in a statement that an assistant standing behind the boy. Which could not prevent the accident.

according to a US hospital study from 2010, fatalities are rare during weightlifting. Over a period from 1990 to 2007, the survey counted 114 fatalities compared to almost a million less serious injuries.